December 16, 2017 Saturday Week 2 Day 7

Have you not known? Have you not heard?  Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in; who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing. Isaiah 40:21–23

            The Good News is not new, but a continuation of God speaking throughout all of time and from the “foundations of the earth”.  Even by the foundations of the earth.

            Some will say the Bible and God are old-fashioned and out-of-date. But notice it says it is God who sits above the circle of the Earth. How long before science would understand that the Earth was a circle?  But God who had created the earth and the heavens understood that and His wisdom revealed it to his people

            As the Bible says the heavens declare the glory of God and we can see God in everything around us. We can understand power and leadership through God for He is over all the princes and all the rulers of the Earth.

            The prophet Isaiah says we are like grasshoppers yet in our arrogance we believe we can define God or declare what God can do. But like grasshoppers we have no wisdom or ability to change even our own lives nevertheless God.

            In this season of Christmas discover the glory of God in the form of the Child lying in a Manger wrapped in swaddling clothes. See the glory of God as the Shepherds hear the Angels sing God's promise is being fulfilled. See the glory of God as the Shepherds come and bow before the Lamb of God. And years later as the wise men came from a land far away to the east came to worship and offer their gifts to The God Who Came in the Flesh.

            To worship God we must understand we cannot care for ourselves or lead ourselves. We are like a helpless child in a manger wrapped in the swaddling cloths of our sin. Imprisoned in our own desires and buy our own greed.

            The choice of Christmas is will you bow before the child in the manger who is God come to us? Will you understand that He came to be wrapped in swaddling cloths that we may be set free from the chains of our sin? That he came in poverty so we may find the riches of Go?. And he came to the Shepherds to remind us He is God's lamb that will make our death pass over so we may have life.

            It is my prayer you will open the First Gift of Christmas and discover the God who loves you and came to bless you, to heal you, and to turn us from grasshoppers into the children of God.

            The days are so long as the pain increases.  I know the clock runs the same but at times it seems a day will never end.  It is hard when I cannot read and TV is not a long term solution – yet.  But I have good time with my Lord when I can.  He has bless us and cared for us!